In an increasingly complex and uncertain business environment, building and retaining resilience across diverse material supply chains relies more than ever on innovation with elements of circularity and local security and scalability.

Panelists from different links of a cross-industry value chain will share insights on key pain points, strategies, and high priority innovation areas where investment capital should focus, to help bolster businesses against whatever new shock we will face next!

Questions:

• Looking across your industries, which emerging startup innovations have the greatest potential strengthen – or disrupt - traditional material supply chains?
• When partnering with startups, what unexpected barriers have you faced integrating circular and resilient solutions into your supply chains, and what lessons would you share across sectors?
• If you could invest today in one breakthrough innovation—whether in material recycling, local manufacturing tech, or digital traceability—which would you pick as the key to future resilience, and why?